Dr Nicola Kalk is a  Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Department of Addictions at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, and a Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist working in the King's College Hospital Addictions Care Team for the South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.

She is a co-investigator on the D-SITAR study (NIHR205228) evaluating the implementation of the ten year drug strategy and ProACTIVE study (NIHR152084) evaluating Alcohol Care Teams. She is also co-principal investigator on the BUILD2depot study (NIHR20657).

She is involved in the National Programme on Substance Use Mortality that collates reports from coroners in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland pertaining to deaths related to psychoactive drug use.

Dr Kalk received her MBChB from the University of Cape Town. After receiving the Rhodes Scholarship, she completed an MSc in Social Policy and an MSc in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford. Dr Kalk's PhD was in Addiction Psychiatry, completed at Imperial College London funded by a Wellcome Trust GSK Tranlsational Training Fellowship.